American political life has been especially cahngeable. ... Britain's lost status seemed to portend America's exlipse, and a new conservatism dramatically announced itself in 1980 with the election of Ronald Reagan to the presidency. From the wartime forties, then, to the patriotic conformity of the fifties, to the strident radicalism of the sixties, to the conservatism of the seventies: the American ethos proved impossibly various.
――青山学院大学 経済学部(2月14日実施)――94年